Welcome. Here I'll share my parenting journey and hope you can connect and relate.
All in Attachment Parenting
“…and there I found myself on the couch with both these small people cuddled on me. It felt like exactly where I was supposed to be. Exactly where I am.”
I want the world for these children I birthed and raised so far. And clearly, going away and spending time together as our Family awakened this knowledge in me. Something I already strived for, but a deeper sense of it was cracked wide open inside of me.
Parenting is so much more than you can recognize and realize before you become one. It is so much more than you know even as you’re in the midst of it. And it is hard.
What is mothering and how do we value our roles and ourselves?
As we transition the last baby out of our bed…
How kids teach us what The Secret sold to us, with a story about pink cake.
The pink blur of the ride, with Ava.
To Ava, who is 3.
To Emilio, at 7.
There are some devastating aspects of parenting.
"Talk with your children about loss. Share in their joy, and teach them about the cyclical beauty of life.
"I stood where my Dad took his last breath. I stood and held you, my growing child and felt your breathing. Your steady, consistent, sleeping breath. I know how fragile life is. And I don't run away from it. You can't. Isolation is more painful than living and loving deeply knowing it can all be gone far sooner than you'd expect, or want, or think. "...
""Look at that sky, Ava." I said. And I said it to share, not because I needed her to look. It felt different."
Talking about the desperation I sometimes feel to ensure my kid is a "good one" and how that means I have to be too.
An ode to world breastfeeding written in a Dr. Suess inspired prose.
